ArcJiccological Notes o?i Minnesota. — Hershcy. 289 
pebbles of any kind. Several small "pockets" of undoubted 
flake-like forms were found in a black muck about one and a 
half miles west of the Mississippi river. It is difificult to see 
why the Indians should have brought this useless material 
into a marshy jungle, but it is ecjually as dif^cult to explain its 
transportation by water, wind or animals. P\u-thermore, the 
increase in relative abundance of flakes in approaching known 
outcrops of the c[uartz veins in the schist ledges, indicates a 
derivation of the scattered fragments from them. But at the 
time the sand-plain formed the river-bed the quartz outcrops 
were deeply buried, and hence the distribution of the quartz 
cannot be attributed to water. 
On the farm of Mr. Harry Blanchard, several miles north 
of the Little Two rivers, there is a fine exposure of white 
quartz in the schist ledges at the foot of a high bank. The 
top of this bank, which is the edge of the sand-plain, has nearby 
an occasional small pocket of quartz fragments. Along the 
"river road," north of the Little Two rivers, an especially de- 
veloped pocket of flakes and other fragments of white quartz 
was noted on the sand-plain near a known outcrop of schist. 
They are here so abundant in the road-side that many scores 
were in view at one time. 
A few flakes.were noticed in the road-bed on the sand-plain 
between the Little and the main Two rivers, but when the 
latter stream was crossed they totally disappeared. Between 
here and St. Cloud, although the road continues nearly the 
entire distance on the Glacial sand-plain, often passing close 
to the river bank, not a single specimen of angular quartz was 
found. Searches sufficiently thorough to have brought to light 
hundreds of fragments anywhere in the country between the 
Two rivers and Little Falls were frequently made, but not a 
single specimen was discovered. The singularitv of this cir- 
cumstance disappears when we learn that the quartz-veined 
staurolitic schist and slate of the Morrison county rock out- 
crops do not appear in the country southward from the Two 
rivers, and therefore it is but natural to expect that the quartz 
fragments derived from them should also be alxsent in that 
region. 
A visit was made to the "notch," the site of Miss Babbitt's 
most important discoveries. It has changed much in recent 
